How To Use Dilatory In A Sentence

  • Bishops, like most people, are often dilatory and strongly disposed toward avoiding controversy.
  • With a view of allowing Jake time to "cover his tracks" he resorted to "dilatory" measures. Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography
  • Gingrich branded the amendment strategy "dilatory" about the nicest thing he said about Democrats. Gingrich Goes Ballistic
  • There is a questionable sort of beginning, which might be called dilatory, that consists in carrying the literary aspect of the essential facts to the extreme, and making them occupy a deal more valuable space than is rightly theirs. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
  • Even moderate drinking can have an immediate vasodilatory effect, increasing blood flow to the skin. Times, Sunday Times
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  • And, while the process must be thorough, it can't be dilatory.
  • The presence of large number of candidates makes descriptive answering method onerous and dilatory.
  • It's this dilatory, not-at-all thrusting progress that always makes me wonder where passengers on the North London Line are actually going.
  • Nor can we rely on escalatory steps such as economic sanctions to pressure it as it employs dilatory and diversionary tactics to complete its final solution.
  • Democrats accused them of using "dilatory" tactics, but the Bushmen plodded on. Al At The Brink
  • Here is a Labour Government that says it is interested in the environment and in the United Nations, yet it has been extremely dilatory in bringing this important bill, which is relevant to two of its key pieces of rhetoric, to the House.
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • She denied that her organisation had been dilatory in any way.
  • The fundamental laws, considered as a whole, were the wisest devisable to suit the peculiar circumstances of the Colony; but whilst many of them were disregarded or treated as a dead letter, so many loopholes were invented by the dispensers of those in operation as to render the whole system a wearisome, dilatory process. The Philippine Islands
  • It is this dilatory or sidelong compliance I am talking about.
  • When he and Margaret had left, Henrietta began in a dilatory way to stack the dishwasher and tidy the flat. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • None of this was dilatory or out of the ordinary.
  • Even now, a week before the probable adjournment date, it is still uncertain whether this dilatory Congress will return for a lame-duck session after the Nov. 5 election.
  • Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent. 52449_CLARA
  • When I make a motion to enforce my decision, she complies - but it's always a dilatory effort.
  • The government was to have listed ‘protected’ sports several years ago, but their dilatory carry-on let the hour pass.
  • The usually dilatory official whose habit it is to charge extra for administration costs suddenly works studiously, and earnestly, organizing the charity effort.
  • One explanation for this might be that athletes develop cutaneous blood vessels that respond more to vasodilatory stimuli.
  • Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
  • You might expect politicians to smooth things out when civil servants are being dilatory.
  • Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent. 52449_CLARA
  • On the whole, I feel that it is better to be a little bit too dilatory than too hurried in responding to political proddings of this kind.
  • But, as he said, we shouldn't allow them to engage in hair-splitting and dilatory tactics.
  • When he and Margaret had left, Henrietta began in a dilatory way to stack the dishwasher and tidy the flat. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • After a pause he added'sir. " in a dilatory , grudging way.
  • British institutions have been dilatory in cutting credit card charges.
  • Objectively, the Lefty activists who wanted to hold out for a “worthy” bill, while undoubtedly something of a demotivator for genuinely Progressive legislators, are probably the very least of the dilatory factors in getting this bill passed. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » School Uniforms
  • Smashing through the young Scotsman's media trained response, Snow went through the timetable the PSNI's "dilatory" response remorselessly. Slugger O'Toole
  • From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation — and empty advice. Gänsemännchen. English
  • Lashed out at the team prosecuting him for drunk driving, calling them "unco-operative" and their trial "dilatory"; IOL: News
  • The scientific community has long condemned the redundant, dilatory case-by-case regulatory reviews, which are not required for less predictable conventional crops. Sack Vilsack!
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Previously, dilatory tactics were out of order only after cloture had been invoked.
  • Here, a mother's allergy to snakes deprives the daughter of her favourite screw pine flower (thaazhambu in Tamil), forcing her to adopt dilatory tactics in domestic behaviour.
  • It is reported in the legal profession that some builders are quite dilatory on completions, even having received the bulk of the selling price through the sale of the site and the stage payments.
  • I think the dilatory approach Labour is taking towards boosting family incomes is unnecessary and uncalled for, while we still have far too many families dependent on food banks and other forms of charity for survival.
  • The Senate, by precedent, has ruled such quorum calls dilatory, after cloture. The Volokh Conspiracy
  • The dilatory effect of chocolate under resting conditions can be attributed to improved nitric oxide bioavailability, prostacyclin increase, direct effect of chocolate in smooth muscle cells, or activation of central mechanisms," they write. Grouse Diary Entry
  • But in Nicholas's Russia the dilatory procedures alone made recourse to law ruinous for anyone who had no strings to pull.
  • The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday.
  • It is unfair to suggest medal offices have been dilatory in distributing Canal Zone medals.
  • When he and Margaret had left, Henrietta began in a dilatory way to stack the dishwasher and tidy the flat. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • He said the decision was made in view of what they called dilatory tactics being employed by the lawyers.
  • These dilatory strategies on the intellectual property front, indeed, can ruin the biodiversity richness of the country.
  • Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
  • To be fair, the response of the English public has been as magnificent as that observed here and elsewhere, but the response of the Government has, at the very least, been dilatory.
  • Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent. 52449_CLARA
  • By precedent, the Senate could make such quorum calls dilatory at any time, if no substantive business had intervened since a quorum had been previously established. www): The Volokh Conspiracy
  • During states of ineffective arterial volume, local production of vasodilatory prostanoids and kinins in the kidney offsets the decrease in renal blood flow and helps maintain the glomerular filtration rate.
  • One explanation for this might be that athletes develop cutaneous blood vessels that respond more to vasodilatory stimuli.
  • Dismantling such structures has proved difficult, and the process of economic reform has often been tentative, dilatory, and slow.
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
  • Equally undoubtedly, lawyers acting on behalf of the contracting companies involved will not have been so dilatory in their activities, on behalf of their own paymasters.
  • Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
  • This correspondence with the administration also generates delay; while complaining parties may be noninformative because of lack of experience, an administration is often dilatory out of calculation.
  • It had started dilatory and divisive tactics on the finality of accession.
  • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
  • So it isn't obvious that he broke the law (on balance it seems not), in which case your rather ranting passage (terms such as dilatory, cavalier disregard, blatant disregard all appeared) seems somewhat tendentious and a bit overcooked. Sir Ian Blair: Out of Control?
  • That they have instead been dilatory is a worrying sign of a lack of commitment to the proper safeguarding of human rights.
  • Although C-type natriuretic peptide lacks natriuretic action, it has marked vasodilatory and growth-inhibiting properties.
  • Physical discomfort and dilatory airline service make long-haul traveling difficult enough.
  • That is changing, but employers can be dilatory in encouraging nurses to put in complaints because it is seen as bad publicity for the hospital.
  • Interestingly, the improved vasodilatory capacity appears to be specific to the area trained as 4 weeks of handgrip exercise only showed restored flowdependent dilation in the trained arm.
  • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.

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